Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-10

Summary or Measures that Have
Become Laws or Been
Defeated.
The Number of Bills, Resolutions,
Etc, Introduced in Both
Houses.
Washington special. ]

The total number of laws enacted by the
Forty ninth Congress was, approximately, 1,431,
of which l,O93 originated inJthe House and 1893
in the Senate. Two hundred and sixty-four OF
these became laws by the expiration of the con-
stitutional ten days limitation. Fifty bills
failed TO become laws, owing to the adjourn
ment OF Congress, nine of them at the close OF
the first session. There were 1872 bills vetoed by
the President, or twenty-oue more than had
been vetoed from the foundation OF the Govern
ment down TO the beginning Of this Congress-
OF the vetoed bills ninety-four originated in the
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private BILL that granting a pension TO Joseph
Romeiser, and one public bill for the erection OF
Government building ut Dayton, Ohio, sue
ceeded in passing both houses over the Presi-
dents veto, although several others obtained
the requisite two thirds vote in the Senate, only
to fail in tho House.
OF tho 1853 House bills which became laws
27j were of a more or less public nature. OF the
remaining 77S bills granting pensions or relief
to specially designated pcrsonsl lJ6 became
laws without the approval of the President
The following is n list of more important House
bills which have become laws
To forfeit the Atlantic e. Pacific Railroad land
grant 10 increase the pensions of widows and
dependent relatives from 20 to Sl2 or month
the Dingley shipping bill to lie Iuire the Pacific
roads to pay the cost Of surveying and convey
ing Their land grants and subject the land to tax
alton so soon as the companies are entitled to
them to increase the naval establishment; to
pension the Mexican war veterans the oleomar-
garine act; to authorize tho transfer Of High
wood tract near Chicago, to the United States
for military purposes to protect homestead set
tiers within railroad limits to enable national
banking associations to increase their capital
stock and change their name and location to
grant liconse to towing vessels t. carry linn
tied number OF persons in addition to their
crews; to forfeit the backbone land grant
to reduce the fees on domestic money orders for
sums less than S5 to extend the immediat ,-de-
livery system; to prohibit the passage of local
special laws in the Territories to provide for
N a nf IA fnnr NJ AIano
Claims; To establish additional life-saving sta
tions for the construction Of al 'itional light
houses extending the free-dclivery system to
towns Of 1000 inhabitants for the sale of the
Cherokee reservation in Arkansas to amend tho
statutes so to require brewers to give bonds
for three times their estimated monthly tax;
for the issue OF postal notes in sums less than
50 to validate the general laws of Dakota re-
garding the incorporation OF insurance COM
panies to provide for the inspection of tobacco,
cigars, and snuff and TO repeal section 3l51 Of
the Revised Statutes to make st. Charles
Mo-, port Of entry; to allow underwriters
to be recognized as consignees OF merchandise
on abandoned vessels to restrict ownership of
lands in the territories to American citizens to
amend the act dividing Missouri into two judi
cial districts, and to divide IL into eastern and
western divisions to prohibit Government en-
p Dyes from hiring or contracting out the labor
of United States prisoners to amend the duti-
able-goods act us to allow merchan-
disc TO be transported in bond On passenger
Trains in safes, pouches, and trunks and in
parcels TO amend the act prohibiting the inn
labor contracts for an additional associate JUS
tce of tho supreme Court of Wyoming; proYid-
ing for the location of n branch soldiers homo
west OF the ROCKY Mountains; for tho relief of
the Jeanette sufferers ;amCndatory of the act
dividing Illinois into judicial districts and pro-
viding for the holding of terms of court Mt Peo-
ria relative to contested elections to loan art-
eles in the Governmont departments tn the Min
nesota Industrial Exposition; to regulate the
jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts for
the adjustment of land grants and the forfeit
ure of unearned lnnds to add number of cities
to the list of national bank reserve cities. and
to allow part of tho reserve to be
kept in cities osher than New York; for
tho relief of settlers tho public
lands in Kansas and Nebraska 10 provide
for bringing suits against the Governments for
the erection Of public buildings ut Los Angeles
Cal, Springfield, Mo, FL PHso, Tex, Santa Fe
n NJ, and jefferson. Tex. t. increase the limit
of cost of public buildings at Peoria, ILL.,, Gal
weston, Tex, Clarksburg, w. Va, Keokuk,
Iowa, Chattanooga, Tenn, Detroit, Mich. for
the completion or improvement OF public build
son, Tenn. and Hannibal, No. for the purchase
OF additional ground for the building ut Fort
Wayne, Ind. for the purchase of n site for a
Federal building at San Francisco, Cal.
Forty House Joint resolutions became laws,
the principal ones being as follows:
Directing the Commissioners Of Labor to make
an investigation as to convict labor; authoriz-
ing tIe Secretary of the Interior to cert lin
unexpended balances for the relief of the
Northern Cheyennes OF Wyoming to authorize
the President to protect American fishing and
trading vessels AID American ish rmen in Can
adian waters authorizing an investigation of
the books, methods, and accounts of the Pacific
railroads.
OF the total number of bills which passed the
Senate 800 became laws, including lis of n
public and 205 of n strictly private nature. The
following is list of the more important:
The Presidential succession bill the inter-
state commerce bill for the retirement and
recoinage of tho trade dollar; tho electoral
count bill; for the allotment Of lands in sew
crafty to Indians; to repeal the tenure OF Office
act; to increase the annual appropriation for
kha
ment stations to legalize the incorporation Of
trades unions authorizing the transmission Of
weather reports through the mails free Of post
age; to increase the pension for loss of an
arm or log to indemnify the Chinese for
losses sustained by the Rock Springs WY.
IT, riot; for tho relief Of Texas, Colora-
Nevada, Washington Territory, and Ida
no; authorizing the sale Cf certain Gov
ernment property in Chicago; for the holding
of terms of the United States Courts Mt Bay
City, Mich. to remove the charge of dese ton
from the records of soldiers who re enlisted
without wing received discharges on account
of first enlistment; to establish two additional
land districts in Nebraska TO amend the laws
relating TO patents, Trademarks, and copy
the r, cords of The Court OF Alabama Claims TO
credit kansas with certain money ordnance
account; to bridge the Miss sspp River at st.
Louis to allow receivers of national banks to
buy in trust property on the approval OF the
Comptroller Of the Currency; to prohibit the
importation of oIium for the ere tion Of pub
Tic Dull lupS HJ III antonio, It NHS. houston,
Texas, Oshkosh Wis, Fort Smith. Ark, Ovens
borough, KY, and Milwaukee Wis. TO increase
the limit OF cost for public buildings Mt oxford
Miss, and Denver, Col for the completion of
public buildings ut Fort Scott aud Wichita,
Kansas.
Tho Senate bills vetoed were thirty-nine in
number, eleven being Of public and twenty
eight Of n private character The public bills
vetoed were rs follows:
TO quiet the titles of settlers on the Des
Moines River lands passed the veto in the
nato, hut failed OF TN necessary two-thirds
in the Honsel; for the erection OF public build
ings at Zanesvile, Ohio, Lafayette Ind Sioux
City, Iowa, Dayton, Ohio tpassed over the veto
in both housesl, and Lynn Mass. (; to extend the
provisions Of tho immediate transportation act
70 Omaha, Neb. to grant railroads right Of way
through tho Indian reservations in Northern
Montana.
The ninety-three House bills vetoed in
cluded eighty-seven private bills aud six bills
OF public nature. The public bills vetoed
were:
For tho erection Of FEDERAL buildings at
Springfield Mo-, Dul IT, Minn., Ashe,ille N c.,
and Portsmouth, ohio; e. distribute 700 |
worth of sccds among the drought-strickcn peo-
pie OF Texas: to grant pensions to dependent
soldiers and dependent relatives of deceased
soldiers.
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that the country landscape is pleasant
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